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Based in Adamsville, Ohio, US firm Farmers’ Ethanol is planning an investment of $135 million (€100 million) to build a bioethanol refinery in Smederevo, Serbia. Farmers’ Ethanol spokesperson Maja Fragner explains that the plant would create 200 factory jobs, while another 5,000 will be employed to grow the raw materials needed for the biofuel refinery. ‘Farmers’ Ethanol…
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You can listen to presentations from H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic, Ivan Soucek, CEO, Ceska Rafinerska, Marc Gillmann, Bioenergy expert, Total, Miroslav Bažata, Head of biofuel sales, Agropodnik, Robert Gmyrek, Director, Biofuels Department, PKN Orlen, Dag Roger Rinde, CEO, Statoil and many more for just €575 a day. As an added bonus the price…
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US-based Terra Energy Resources is a step closer to acquiring an oil terminal in Pennsylvania. The company plans to turn the 24,000 gallon facility into a biodiesel production facility for use in home heating fuel while taking advantage of incentives offered by the state of Pennsylvania for production of alternative fuels. This acquisition will include land, buildings, and…
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US president Barack Obama is introducing new energy policies that will see an increased use of advanced biofuels in the country’s military vehicles. According to Obama these energy strategies will not only help protect the environment, but will also go towards protecting national security. He said: ‘Our military leaders recognise the security imperative of increasing the use of alternative…
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UK chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) fund to inject investment in green transport and energy projects. The UK government is committed to reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and so changes in infrastructure and power generation will be needed over the coming decades. The Labour Government hopes to upgrade the transport system to use cleaner fuels…
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Following an indication given by the European Biodiesel Board (EBB) Italian customs authorities seized a large quantity of illegal biodiesel at the end of March. This operation, as carried out by the Custom authorities of the port of Venice was validated by an Italian judge. The 10,000 tonnes of biodiesel were imported in the ports of Venice and Trieste in mid-March. The load was declared as…
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A total of $79.75 million (€58.3 million) will be awarded to the GreenField ethanol plant in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, over a period of seven years. GreenField will receive the funding from the Canadian government’s ecoENERGY for Biofuels programme. ‘What it allows us to do is maintain the right operating margins to support operations,’ said Jean Roberge, the GM of GreenField Ethanol of…
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After the construction of an ethanol biorefinery began in late 2007 work ceased a year later and Illinois-based Aventine Renewable Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2009 but now things are changing. The Posey County ethanol plant in Mount Vernon was near completion when the building work was forced to stop due to a rise in the cost of ethanol production. The prices of oil…
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India’s largest energy firms NTPC and Indian Oil Corp (IOC) are considering biodiesel production. The two companies will undertake research and development on an integrated biodiesel unit for developing new innovative technology. The biodiesel project is in line with the government-proposed policy on biofuels. The government is considering to replace 10% of petroleum product requirement in…
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A group of UK companies working under the Carbon Trust aims to start producing biofuel from a pilot plant in 2014 eventually producing over 2 million tonnes a year from UK biomass. Axion Energy, along with catalytic technologies company Catal International, CARE and technology provider Aquafuel Research, will aim to turn the pyrolysis process into a cheap and green way of producing biofuel on a…
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Overall production of ethanol will increase by 16.2% this year resulting in 85.9 billion litres being manufactured. This rise in ethanol production will see more than one million barrels of biofuels a day replace 370 million barrels of oil this year, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) forecasts. With over 45 billion litres of ethanol expected to be manufactured in the US alone this…
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KLM, a Dutch airline operator and part of Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM, is aiming to offer flights to the public that will use biofuels. In November 2009 a 90 minute KLM aeroplane flew over the Netherlands in a Boeing 747. During this flight one out of the three engines used a 50:50 biofuels blend while the other two ran on 100% kerosene. According to Peter Hartman, KLM’s chief executive,…
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In California Envirepel Energy plans to reopen the company’s first renewable energy facility after it temporarily closed in June last year to deal with a shareholder proxy effort. The company hopes the facility, which generates 2.5MW of power from biomass resources, will be operational again by the middle of April 2010. The plant, which was built in the centre of a commercial business park,…
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